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Different Dog · fresh-cooked

Different Dog Shepherd’s Pie review

A solid, honest fresh-cooked food. 60% declared meat content leads the label, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. The breakdown below shows exactly where every point went.

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ODF Score 69/100 Good
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Top 60%scores higher than 40% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
60%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin
192kcal per 100 g

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 81/100 across 8 ingredients (declared percentages used for 8, position estimates for the rest).
32.4 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 97% of the recipe (+5.8); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
14.8 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 60%.
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 8% dry matter (low); fat 44.4% DM is high (obesity/pancreatitis watch) (-2.0); fibre 4.5% DM (+2); ash 6.1% DM - sensible mineral load (+2); functional extras: named botanicals, omega-3 source (+2).
8 / 10
Processing
Gently cooked fresh food - low temperatures with a pathogen kill step.
10 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
69 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 69 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 32.4 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 60% meat, which is unusually specific - most brands never print a figure at all, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Meat & fish

Human-Quality British Lamb 60%Fresh Lamb Heart 25%Fresh Lamb Liver 5%

Fruit & veg

Swede 15%Red Cabbage 7%Cauliflower 6%Pear 5%Button Mushrooms 3%

Supplements & extras

Mint 0.7%Chia Seeds 0.3%
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 125 g a day.

No reliable price data for this food yet, so no cost estimate - we only show numbers we can back.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 10 kg dog works out near 534 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 192 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

37.3 % DM
Directory average: 46.1

Fat

44.4 % DM
Directory average: 26.7

Est. carbs

7.7 % DM
Directory average: 17

Fibre

4.5 % DM
Directory average: 4

Ash

6.1 % DM
Directory average: 7.7

Energy

192 kcal/100g
Directory average: 141.9

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

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